The Royal Canadian Legion Saskatchewan Command LEST WE FORGET 83 CREELMAN (nee DAWES), Phoebe WWII Phoebe was born in the area of Eltham, near Plunkett, SK. She went to school at the Eltham country school and did the usual farm work while growing up. She was in the Royal Canadian Navy for two and a half years and married Allan Creelman while stationed at Victoria, BC. He was also serving in the Navy. They later resided in Vancouver, BC. Phoebe’s father, Arthur Dawes, was in WWI. CROWE, Arthur B. WWI Arthur was born on March 5, 1877 in Claremont, Minnesota. In 1903, he married Lionne Parker and they emigrated from Nebraska to Vermilion, AB with their five children in 1913. After joining the Army in North Battleford, SK on September 2, 1916, he moved the family to Prince Albert, SK. Arthur was a Private with the 46th Canadian Battalion and served in Holland, Germany and France where he injured his back in Vimy. After his discharge in 1918, he farmed and broke green horses on land north of Prince Albert, SK. He and his wife raised nine children. His two sons, Robert and Perry, enlisted in WWII. Arthur was a member of Christopher Lake Legion Branch 159 and he died on July 3, 1942. CROWE, Frederick Perry “Perry” WWII Perry was born on February 2, 1914 in Cottonwood, South Dakota, USA but went to various country schools in Northern Saskatchewan and in Prince Albert, SK. He loved to hunt, was a skilled fisherman and he farmed and logged in various places in Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Perry married Marjorie Whitter and had two children. He joined the Royal Canadian Navy in April 1944 and served overseas on HMCS Atlantic and Cornwallis, serving as a Gunnery Mate. He was discharged on December 14, 1945. His brother, Bob, also enlisted in WWII and his dad, Arthur, had enlisted in WWI. Perry spent his last days in Fort St. John, BC where he died on March 17, 1988.
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